Et chaque fois, les feuilles mortes ♪ ♬ ♩

A photo that I took the other day with my iPhone of some fallen leaves on a fall day in Paris

Une photo que j’ai prise l’autre jour avec mon iPhone d’une feuille par terre dans une rue de Paris.

Paris - where chewed gum is used on the sidewalks to absorb shocks

Am I the only one that notices that all of the sidewalks in Paris are covered in ABC gum (”Already Been Chewed”)? My theory is that the chewing gum surface provides a sort of cushion layer to the pavement, which in great quantiy will reduce the hardness and absorb some of the shocks incurred by pedestrians. Parisians must just spit their gum out on the streets to keep their knees from giving out from all of that walking they do.

What’s your theory on this chewed up spit out gum that lines the streets of Paris?